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Kobach is not Mitt Romney’s immigration adviser?

By GLENN THRUSH

04/17/2012 12:53 PM EDT

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Over the weekend, I noticed that Kris Kobach, Mitt Romney’s unpaid immigration adviser -- and the inspiration for Romney’s “voluntary deportation” strategy – wasn’t included in a fairly comprehensive Boston Globe rundown of staff, advisers and the kitchen cabinet types.

When I asked Boston if Kobach was still an “adviser,” a Romney spokesperson emailed back: “supporter.”

And then she sent a cut-pasted a copy of a press release from Kobach’s endorsement earlier this year.

About a month ago, when I wrote about the Kansas Secretary of State, author of the controversial Arizona and Alabama immigration laws, folks in Mittland were referring to Kobach as an informal adviser – and I picked up on a lot of anger at Kobach from Romney’s Hispanic supporters who blamed him for pushing the candidate to the right on immigration, which has cost him dearly in recent polls among Spanish-speaking voters.

At the time, several prominent Romney supporters predicted the former Massachusetts governor would begin distancing himself from Kobach once the nomination was sewn up.

UPDATE: Not so fast! Kobach contradicts: “No, my relationship with the campaign has not changed. Still doing the same thing I was doing before.” Asked what that entails, he said, “providing advice on immigration policy.” “I don’t want to go into great detail, but I communicate regularly with senior members of Romney’s team,” Kobach just told ThinkProgress.